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Best Art About Work

Wyatt Closs | Posted 11.04.2011

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Wyatt Closs

Art at work? Well, art portraying work or workers' values and struggles has been going on for centuries, but portraying work in dramatic or readily ac...

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Manifest Equality: Art, Hipness, and Civil Rights for All

Pamela Ezell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Pamela Ezell

Like many Californians, the Manifest Equality team was elated the night of Obama's victory, and then stunned the next morning with the news that Proposition 8 had passed.

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'Manifest Equality': A Call to Action

Wendy Carrillo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wendy Carrillo

After his very public separation from the National Endowment of the Arts, Yosi Sergant is back with the "Manifest Equality" art exhibit, a much anticipated "welcome home."

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Yosi Sergant And The Art Of Right Wing Hysteria

Neon Tommy | Hillel Aron | Posted 05.25.2011

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It was late September 2009, and Yosi Sergant was sitting in Washington National Airport, waiting for his flight. His sister Shira was about to give bi...

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Yosi Sergant Resigns

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The controversial communications chief for the National Endowment of the Arts resigned Thursday after drawing fire from Republican ...

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Ryan Grim

Two Weeks Later, NEA Weighs In On Yosi Sergant Demotion

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's not quite what you'd get from a rapid-response war room, but roughly two weeks after the National Endowment for the Arts demoted communications d...

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The New Shape of the Culture War: Glenn Beck, Yosi Sergant, Van Jones, and Hip-Hop

Jeff Chang | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeff Chang

Yosi Sergant worked at what the Obama campaign thought were the margins: to use the creative power of artists to ignite the imagination of the people.

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Yosi Sergant, Administration Aide Demoted: Glenn Beck Strikes Again

Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE: The NEA has updated their statement to emphasize that Yosi Sargent remains with the agency, but in a different position: "As regards Yosi Serg...

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How the Obama "Hope" Poster Reached a Tipping Point and Became a Cultural Phenomenon: An Interview With the Artist Shepard Fairey

Ben Arnon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ben Arnon

"I think what then happened was that there were a lot of people who were digging Obama but they didn't have any way to symbolically show their support."

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